linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:10:50 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Mohammed, Afzal" <afzal@...com>
Cc:	"Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>, "V, Aneesh" <aneesh@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mgreer@...malcreek.com" <mgreer@...malcreek.com>,
	"msalter@...hat.com" <msalter@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:34:15PM +0000, Mohammed, Afzal wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:40:45, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:17:49PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > > I was hoping that we will have some thing like drivers/memory/*
> > > but since it doesn't exist, we used drivers/misc.
> > 
> > Why not create it?  I have no objection to that, it makes it more
> > obvious as to what this really is.
> 
> There is another memory controller used in a few TI SoCs,
> namely GPMC [1], do you prefer having it too there.

Sure, why not?

> As of now it is not a driver, platform code handles GPMC, a patch
> series for converting it into a driver (but still residing in
> platform folder) was sent a few days back [2,3].

People are moving things out of the platform folder, so drivers/memory
makes sense.

thanks,

greg k-h
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